Joseph
Farquharson
1846-1935
Joseph
Farquharson was born in Edinburgh on 4th May, the son of the Laird
of Finzean, until his twelfth year he was only allowed to paint
on a Saturday. On his birthday that year, he was given a box of
paints which he soon put to good use, submitting a painting, which
was accepted, to the RSA the following summer. The Scottish landscape
painter and family friend Peter Graham was his art teacher for
twelve years, and at 16 he enrolled in the Board of Manufacturers
School in Edinburgh.
In
1880 he went to study in Paris under the French master Carolus
Duran where he gained a great technical skill in using broad brushwork.
Between 1885-1893 he journeyed to Egypt several times, exhibiting
works from these travels.
However,
by the early 1890s he had become the master of Scottish winter
landscapes many of which he exhibited at the RA. No one has painted
the north east of Scotland with more realism and understanding.
Walter Sickert wrote that his treatment of snow scenes showed
‘the mark of the real painter’. Elected
RA 1915.
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